Title 7 Natural Resources and Environmental Control

1124 Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions

7.0 Circumvention

01/11/1993

7.1 No owner or operator subject to this regulation may build, erect, install, or use any article, machine, equipment, process, or other method the use of which conceals emissions that would otherwise constitute non-compliance with an applicable section of this regulation.

7.2 7.1 of this regulation includes, but is not limited to, the use of gaseous diluents to achieve compliance, and the piecemeal carrying out of an operation to avoid coverage by a section of this regulation that applies only to operations larger than a specified size.

7.3 No owner or operator of a facility subject to this regulation shall discharge or dispose of VOCs or material containing VOCs to surface impoundments, pits, wastewater treatment facilities or sewers for the purpose of circumventing any provision or requirement of this regulation.